different between hacher vs hash

French

Etymology

From Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakk?n, from Proto-Germanic *hakk?n? (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.?e/

Verb

hacher

1. to chop up, mince

2. (dated) to split with an axe
3. (rare) to cut roughly and unequally
4. (formal) to cut or hit repeatedly with something sharp; to slash
5. (formal, rare) to speak or write with a very unequal or irregular style or rhythm

Usage notes

• In literary description, the adjective haché is much more common than the verb.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• viande hachée

Related terms

• hachage
• hache
• hachement
• hacheur
• hache-viande
• hachoir
• hachure
• hachurer

Descendants

• ? English: hash

Further reading

• “hacher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• hachier, hâcher

Etymology

From Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakk?n, from Proto-Germanic *hakk?n? (“to chop; hack”).

Verb

hacher

1. to chop up, mince

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: hacher
  • ? English: hash

Old French

Alternative forms

• hachier, hascher

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *hakk?n, from Proto-Germanic *hakk?n? (“to chop; hack”).

Verb

hacher

1. to chop up, mince

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: hacher, hachier, hâcher
  • French: hacher
    • ? English: hash
• Gallo: haèchae
• Norman: haguer, hager (Guernesiais)
• Picard: hacheu, acheu, èkieu (Athois), héquer
• Walloon: atchè (Forrières)

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?sh, IPA^(key): /?hæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Old French hache (“axe”).

Noun

hash (plural hashes)

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
2. A confused mess.
4. (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

   Synonyms: hash mark, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, octothorn, octothorpe, pound, pound sign, sharp sign, square

5. (computing) The result generated by a hash function.

   Synonym: checksum

6. (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
7. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
   • October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann

     I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

8. A hash run.
   • 1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts (page 81)

     Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.

9. (Scotland) A stupid fellow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)

1. (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
2. To make a quick, rough version

   We need to quickly hash up some plans.

3. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

Derived terms

• hash out
• rehash

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of hashish.

Noun

hash (uncountable)

1. (informal) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Translations

References

• hash at OneLook Dictionary Search
• hash in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Shah, ahhs, hahs, shah, sh?h

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hash [1966], short for hashish, from Arabic ??????? (?aš?š, “hay, dried herb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hasj/, [ha?]

Noun

hash c (singular definite hashen, not used in plural form)

1. hash, hashish Not used anymore to denote dried herbs.
2. hash a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Derived terms

• hashryger

Related terms

Portuguese

Noun

hash m (plural hashes)

1. (computing) hash (key generated by a hash function)